Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Indian doctors to bring robotic cancer surgery to Uganda

from www.monitor.co.ug:

>>Cancer care treatment in developed countries has improved largely because of technology, but in poor countries like Uganda it is still a big problem. There is hope however. Doctors from HCG Cancer Care Network in India set foot in Kampala recently to expand their services here. They were headed by Dr B. S Ajaikumar the CEO of the Cancer Care Network.

The doctors displayed the latest technology known as cyber knife robotic radiosurgery system which they use back in India. Dr Ajaikumar said HCG was the first to introduce the technology in India and so far, there are two centres which use it in that country.

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“Cyber knife can penetrate normal tissues without harming them. It delivers precise treatment without using surgery but by using radiation. We believe removing body parts while operating a cancer patient is a thing of the past,” he stressed. “We hope to bring this technology here and we hope to change the cancer case in Uganda like we did in India.”

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